hello! I’ve made a chic (I hope) new jacket… and in such a pretty colour, I’m completely in love. Guava pink? Strawberry icecream pink? Sherbie pink? Coral? Ham pink? haha. Whichever, I really adore it and feel like it’s one…
hiking in Italy/Norway; a travel wardrobe
hello! We have very recently returned from a long hiking holiday, which involved some clever packing of seasonal extremes into a small suitcase with a 15kg limit. Challenge accepted! I shall now proceed to discuss my travel wardrobe and…
a cosy new dress and a backpack
hello! long time no see! I’ve been very busy lately, being a diligent little jet setter and living out of one suitcase for an entire month … I do have a travel wardrobe post planned but it will take me…
a Minä Perhonen dress and some new clogs
hello! I’ve made a whole new outfit recently… it’s not so often that I can present a new, head-to-toe handmade outfit like this! I bought this Minä Perhonen hessian on a previous trip to Tokyo, and after a suitable…
some new things…
hello! I’ve made some new things recently… firstly, some new winter pyjamas. 🙂 I used my usual Closet Core patterns Carolyn pattern for the bottoms, and for the top I used a pattern adapted from a Burda pattern, just a…
“cool bunny” T-shirts
Hello! For the Easter just gone by I wanted to give something to my three little grandsons… chocolate has been ruled out by the parents and so I had to think of something else. I decided upon this! As a…
dazzling dazzle
hello! I made a fun new little dress… this is the new Fibremood Dazzle pattern, which is actually a top pattern but I lengthened it to be a dress, simply because I had enough of this gorgeous fabric to do…
South Korea and Japan; a travel wardrobe
hello! so as I mentioned in my last post we have just got back from a nearly month-long trip through east Asia, and just for fun I’m assessing the usefulness/workability of my travel wardrobe as usual… BTW; if you’ve ever…